CG Character Animation Short Film Comedy - Online Development Diary

Devils Angels & Dating - Teaser Trailer

http://DevilsAngelsAndDating.com

While Devil, Death and Cupid set about their daily tasks of masterminding our love lives here on Earth, they find themselves in the midst of an afterlife love triangle.

Directed by Michael Cawood, an animation veteran, this computer animated short film is the work of a worldwide team of Artists and Animators. Entirely developed online, it has also become a fantastic learning tool and a source of inspiration for students and professionals alike.

Comment by Michael Cawood - Director on July 28, 2011 at 7:18pm: With a few things in the works it was necessary to put out the final version of the teaser trailer. There's still a few things I would have liked to fix, but there was no way to know how long we might have to wait to get those increasingly smaller and smaller issues ironed out. A trailer rarely has 100% complete shots anyway, so it will be curious to see how much the shots change from here to the final film.

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Comment by Dapoon Rai Dewan on July 28, 2011 at 8:21pm: Wow! It's finally here!! I'm definitely sharing this! :)

BTW I still see a slight glitch of Devil's eyeballs disappearing within the geometry at frame 964. I'm sure you've noticed it too.

Anyhow this looks great! Looking forward to the completion of the movie soon as well!

Comment by Michael Cawood - Director on July 28, 2011 at 8:32pm: I know... there's lots of eyeline issues coming from the render. It's a big R&D job to fix it though, so I had to put it back until after the trailer was done.

Comment by Philippe REY - Composer on July 28, 2011 at 11:18pm: Great, very dynamic !
I was thinking about the narrative voice. The voice has a great importance for the understanding of the film. But for people who do not understand english it may be difficult to adhere to the film. I know it's probably a lot of work, but did you plan to have several subtitles eventually ? (German, French, Italian, Spanish, Indian, Norwegian!?)

Comment by Michael Cawood - Director on July 28, 2011 at 11:36pm: It's not something I've put much thought into yet... the film had no language in it until recently so it's not been planned for. If it were released to a paid audience in non English speaking countries I'm sure we can give it subtitles or a different voice overs. But it's probably a bit beyond the scope of a zero budget project to plan for that up front. There would have to be a give an take if we did it for free, some sort of reason for it.

Admittedly it might not be hard to find translators, given our team's reach. But I don't want to over complicate an already ambitious project. There are already quite a lot of potentially time consuming side projects that would probably be more valuable.